Listener Reviews & Comments
This review is from: Eye Dance (Audio CD)
At first this album comes as a deep, deep disappointment to any Boney M. fan. The frontcover doesn't feature a group photo, not even their logo, and vocally it sounds more like a Reggie Tsiboe (new male member) / Frank Farian collaboration rather than a Boney M. album. Liz Mitchell is only featured on lead vocals on two songs - Marcia Barrett on non at all. Furthermore the whole album concept is really vile. But if you're able to abstract from this first disillusion, it is possible to enjoy some of the songs separately. The single "Young Free & Single" - although not sounding anything like Boney M. - is in fact quite catchy. "Todos Buenos" has some hit potential too but it lacks Farian's usually brilliant production. The title track may be the album's best song, a duet between Farian's deep male voice and high falsetto voice. Although Boney M. has done some quite surprising cover versions (that worked!), "Dreadlock Holiday" does without question not fit on a Boney M. album but it's not that bad when you imagine it as a Reggie Tsiboe solo track. Nevertheless it's strange how such a wonderful track like their 12" version of "My Cherie Amour" comes off so uninteresting in this edit version, and it's downright painful to listen to the inane closing track "Bang Bang Lulu", yet another Caribbean traditional but not at all so charming as "Brown Girl In The Ring". Only "Chica Da Silva" has Boney M.'s name written all over it, even so the album were better left unreleased.
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